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Mike Mandel is widely regarded as one of the world’s best hypnotists, with a career that spans decades and includes run-ins with some of Canada’s top music and comedic talents. He is now getting ready to take the stage for the last time. (Photos submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Joel Wittnebel<\/strong>
\nACTIVE SENIOR\u2019S DIGEST<\/p>\n

For about 45 years, Mike Mandel has been travelling the world, putting people under his spell.<\/p>\n

With a few words, he can lock your hands together. A few more and you could be completely gone, you could forget your name, or shovel non-existent snow, or even drive in an invisible car, usually to the delight of a laughing and clapping audience.<\/p>\n

Widely regarded as one of the world\u2019s best hypnotists, with a career that spans decades and includes run-ins with some of Canada\u2019s top music and comedic talents, Mandel has made quite a name for himself, a name that has been immortalized in song, and appeared on CBC, YTV, W5, Discovery and Bravo.<\/p>\n

Now, Mandel is getting ready to take the stage for the last time, to thrill a final audience of people with his wit and hypnotic skill.
\nAnd how does one learn such a skill?<\/p>\n

Well, for Mandel, it all started above an animal clinic in Toronto.<\/p>\n

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Mike Mandel during a gig in the 1980s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The start of it all<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mandel\u2019s story began on Walbeck Avenue in Chatterton, a town in Manchester, UK. Mandel was born in the home, similar to many children in those days. However, Mandel wasn\u2019t long for the UK, as he only spent a few years there.<\/p>\n

When Mandel was young, his father took advantage of a Bell Canada advertisement seeking qualified engineers to come work in Canada. So, his father sailed off to North America, shortly to be followed by Mandel, his sister, and their mother. The family immediately settled in Toronto.<\/p>\n

When he was eight-years-old, Mandel says his fascinations began to turn to everything magic, starting with card tricks and sleight of hand. However, it wasn\u2019t until the age of 12 when he first discovered hypnotism, and the innate talent that he seemed to possess for the skill.
\nIt was in 1965, during a trip to a Cole\u2019s book store, when Mandel\u2019s father told him to pick a book, any book, and he could have it. He chose a book on hypnotism, and took it home with greedy intent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took this home and learned all the contents,\u201d Mandel recalls.<\/p>\n

At this point in his childhood, Mandel\u2019s family had moved to their second home in Toronto, this one along Victoria Park Avenue, and sat next to a veterinary clinic.<\/p>\n

Above the clinic lived a family with two young kids who Mandel had made friends with. These two became his first hypnotic subjects.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one, it was just a big joke to him, but the other, the older brother, I got him into hypnosis and cataleptic, and made his hand go numb, stuck pins in his fingers and he couldn\u2019t feel it,\u201d Mandel recalls. He was hooked.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was really the start of it as a kid, I got fascinated by hypnosis and found out I was pretty good at it pretty quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mike Mandel has done a show at McMaster University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finding his path<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite his seemingly ingrown talent for the hypnotic arts, Mandel learned early on that school just wasn\u2019t for him.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t for a lack of good grades though. In fact, the hypnotic prodigy skipped Grade 4, jumping from Grade 3 to Grade 5. However, this was no blessing in disguise.<\/p>\n

Being lumped into a split glass of Grade 5 and 6s, Mandel was forced to work at a Grade 6 level by a teacher who, he claims, just had it out for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just lost interest in school,\u201d he says. \u201cI hated it. I thought this is what it\u2019s like.\u201d<\/p>\n

After school, Mandel worked odd jobs, and for a time, worked as a telephone operator for Bell Canada.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until 1975 when Mandel would connect the dots that would lead him to a career on stage.<\/p>\n

In November of that year, Mandel went to see the Amazing Kreskin, a popular mentalist at the time and upon returning home from the show, he realized something.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came home and I was able to duplicate a lot of the things he did,\u201d Mandel says.<\/p>\n

Not long after, a friend, working as a booking agent for a number of Canadian bands, asked him if he wanted to book a gig. It was a talk-show, and it would be the beginning of it all.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was terrified. I didn\u2019t have a clue what I was doing, but somehow the bug bit and that was it,\u201d Mandel says. \u201cI said goodbye to my job at Bell and I\u2019ve been on the road doing this and doing hypnosis, in one form or another professionally for 44 years now.\u201d<\/p>\n

And as successful as he would go on to become, those early days were a grind. There was dealing with drunks in bars that wouldn\u2019t listen to his gig and there were corporate acts filled with old businessmen who didn\u2019t take the 21-year-old Mandel seriously.<\/p>\n

However, there were some bright spots in those early days. There was the time he headlined a show alongside Jim Carey. The two of them flipping a coin to see who would hit the stage first. Carey won, and after the show, gave Mandel his number telling him to call if he ever wanted to go bowling. There was also the time he hypnotized Alanis Morissette on the stage of her Ottawa high school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were the best of times, they were the worst of times,\u201d Mandel says with a laugh.<\/p>\n

However, using youth to his advantage, Mandel began to perform at universities and colleges across the province, and it was there, in front of willing kids only a few years younger than himself, that he learned the ropes of being a performer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where my talents were able to be honed,\u201d he says. \u201cI was getting a lot of really good subjects and I was beginning to determine my own sort of routine and what was my own style at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, early on, Mandel says he was taught a valuable lesson, a lesson that may still be kicking around inside his head even now, as he prepares to leave the stage for good.<\/p>\n

It was in Palmerston, Ontario, 1975. Mandel was performing at the district high school in the small town about an hour outside of Guelph. The place was packed with kids, with about 25 to 30 volunteers filling the stage, ready to fall under his spell.<\/p>\n

He started them off easy, perhaps the easiest hypnotic trick in the book, as he asks them to grip their hands together, and gives them the suggestion that they\u2019re stuck, and can\u2019t pull them apart. It\u2019s an old trick to help identify who will make the best hypnotic subjects. This time though, it didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single one of them get their hands apart, immediately,\u201d Mandel recalls, laughing at the memory. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t even a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

And while he laughs it off now, it made him truly reconsider his act and how he thought about the profession he was getting into.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing was, I realized I hadn\u2019t studied hypnosis formally. I was somewhat of a hypnosis prodigy,\u201d he says. \u201cThe problem with that was I had not yet ascertained what were the essentials of the art and what were the theatrics of the art. The two had become blurred in my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

And now, as Mandel prepares to leave the theatrics behind him, the essentials are all that\u2019s left, and he prepares to share them with the world.<\/p>\n

However, that\u2019s getting ahead of the story. First, Mandel needs to become a rock star.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Blasting off<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was 1978, three years into Mandel\u2019s budding hypnosis career, his \u201ckill rate\u201d (the amount of subjects he was successfully hypnotizing on stage) was through the roof, and the interest was phenomenal. Right from the start, people were lining up to see his show.<\/p>\n

Then, a chance meeting in the Sunshine State, between Mandel\u2019s manager and another hypnotist would change everything.<\/p>\n

It was an ambitious plan, one that was trying to tap into the mania surrounding space, and everything Star Trek and Star Wars. The idea, to create a travelling stage in the likeness of the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, then hypnotize the audience and \u201ctake\u201d them into outer space.<\/p>\n

And so, they ran with it. A firm from Las Vegas was hired to design the set, a pyrotechnics company that did work for Kiss and Rush were brought in to formulate the indoor fireworks (fireworks that would explode and break apart over the crowd) and suddenly, Mandel went from performing for college and university students to shows in Vegas with an entire road crew and a manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what turned me into a hypnosis rock star,\u201d Mandel says. \u201cIt was a blast at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mandel\u2019s show also benefited from the fact that he travelled with, and opened for, a lot of successful bands, which gave him access to a wide array of potential fans.<\/p>\n

And he looked the part with his curly, shoulder-length brown hair, thin build, and intergalactic space suits he wore on stage. He was becoming quite the performer, touring extensively in the 1970s with bands like A Foot in Cold Water, Lighthouse, Max Webster, and Teenage Head and is immortalized in the Goddo song \u201cPretty Bad Boys\u201d. \u201cI ain\u2019t no Mike Mandel, but I can read your mind,\u201d the lyric goes.<\/p>\n

However, after a couple years of the performance, anyone reading Mandel\u2019s mind would have known that he was getting tired of it. Not only was it the extensive set-up and take down surrounding the show, but he was also locked in a creative box.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went from being able to improvise at will on stage for 90 minutes, to doing two and a half hour shows that I would have a grind three hour set-up and then an hour and a half tear down afterwards,\u201d he says. \u201cIt just ran me into the ground. I just got sick of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the years that followed, his gigs would highlight his disdain for the props, as he left it all behind, sticking to simply an empty stage, and his uncanny ability to draw people in with only his voice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the challenge I like, to create an event of entertainment with no props,\u201d he says. \u201cI like to just take the challenge and create everything in everyone\u2019s imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n

Needless to say, he\u2019s been successful doing it, and has been trusted by many to use his methods to help them, including a number of music talents, some so famous he won\u2019t name them.<\/p>\n

With that aside, Mandel is officially putting the theatrics behind him, but it may not be the last time you see him, as he plans to turn his mind and energies toward sharing his knowledge and skills, in order to help others.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want the focus of whatever years I have left to be helping other people, therapists, hypnotists, councillors, whatever, replicate excellence, so that they can spread the love around and help other people too,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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Australian tour, 1990s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The hypnotic epicentre<\/strong><\/p>\n

Historically, hypnosis was met with skepticism, and put on the shelf as an unreliable practice in healthcare.<\/p>\n

Yet, during World War I, hypnosis was used to treat shellshocked soldiers returning home. Hypnosis was very successful in assisting with these victims of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or what at the time was known as battle fatigue.<\/p>\n

Today, Mandel says that there has been a real awakening around the benefits of hypnosis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pendulum has really swung the opposite way,\u201d he says. \u201cThe skepticism of hypnosis has really faded over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n

And now, Mandel says the technique is undergoing its biggest boom since the 1800s, and he plans to focus his energies on centring Toronto as the \u201chypnotic epicentre\u201d, a go-to place to learn the skill.<\/p>\n

In fact, Mandel, along with partner Chris Thompson, are already teaching sold-out classes and offering a number of workshops and resources on the topic, drawing in a massive audience from all backgrounds and professions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey come in because they\u2019re open minded, and they come to see it works and it just blows their minds and they take it back to their patients,\u201d Mandel says.<\/p>\n

And the benefits? Well, according to Mandel, they\u2019re bountiful, and it\u2019s actually something many people do on a daily basis, perhaps without even realizing.<\/p>\n

Entering a trance state, like when driving a car at night or watching TV, is along the same lines of the internalized trance of hypnosis, activating many different parts of our brain, Mandel says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we do that, all these wonderful resources become available. That\u2019s how we can erase phobias very quickly and make swimmers into better swimmers and all these wonderful things that hypnosis is great for.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of those great things, also being the ability to heal.<\/p>\n

During a recent summer stint at his cabin, Mandel was cooking a tray of ribs when he distractedly gripped the handle of the tray after taking it out of the oven, forgetting he\u2019d already removed his oven mitts. He burned a few of his fingertips pretty badly.<\/p>\n

Moving quickly, Mandel says he isolated himself in the bedroom, laid down and quickly put himself into a trance state for 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

During that time, he envisioned a tiny firefighter inside his hand, coating the burns with liquid nitrogen. When the one finger would go numb, he would switch to the other finger, continuing this process for the length of his trance.<\/p>\n

The next morning, when he awoke, the burns were nearly non-existent.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou couldn\u2019t even see where it had burned,\u201d Mandel says.<\/p>\n

And in terms of the diversity of uses for hypnosis, Mandel says the experts haven\u2019t even begun to scratch the surface.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is still a never ending fascination. We have still not reached the limits of this,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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Mike Mandel has performed at the Flamingo in Las Vegas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The final show<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking about the moment that he steps on the stage for the last time (March 3 at the Regent Theatre in Oshawa, Ontario), Mandel says he really doesn\u2019t know what to expect. At first, the thought that he may get emotional never crossed his mind, but as the date looms closer, it\u2019s starting to sink in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I was going to be fine with it,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s like saying goodbye to a friend in a way. I\u2019m assuming I\u2019m going to be an emotional basket case.\u201d<\/p>\n

With that said, he has no plans on letting his final group of fans down, and has friends, family and supporters from far and wide coming out to see his final performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything I have to say, everything I want to say, I\u2019m going to say right at the top, before the show,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Even with all the emotion, one of those things Mandel will not be talking about is regret. Instead, audiences can expect to hear a man, grateful for everything that he\u2019s had the chance to do during nearly 45 years in front of the crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cI honestly believe I am retiring from the stage at the peak of my abilities as a hypnotist,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m so grateful to all the awesome Canadian musicians who let me be their opening act, so I could learn my chops in front of ready-made audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

And for one final time, a ready-made audience, will get the opportunity to be put under his spell.<\/p>\n

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